on fantasy books, justice and fairness
Lately I’ve begun to read a lot more than I was already reading. When I was a kid, I maxed out the limit of 4-8 books at the library, and I would…
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surrender and agency
I’ve been contemplating a lot on the Tao Te Ching lately. We are often trapped in a hustle/do-er culture, without having the space to think if what we’re doing is conducive. I…
I think of you when I…
I think of you when I listen to songs of deep breaking love; when I look up in the skies in awe at the grandiosity of the universe; when I feel the…
the whole picture
Just now I was telling a good friend that I watch tv dramas because they give me a space to cry – something I used to do at the drop of a…
reconciling my existence
In my previous post I wrote about my recurring thoughts of being a nun — in truth I wrote it to acknowledge the thought itself, but if I excavated the roots, I…
sitting with ambivalence
I’ve been thinking of being a nun. It is not the first time I’ve thought of it, and wouldn’t be the last. I’ve been thinking of being one since I was a…
deep freeze
autumn’s sheer beauty a creeping blinding prelude to winter’s deep freeze
the grace to remember
I got locked out of my apartment today – the batteries in the electronic lock ran out of power. I had to wait half a day for my landlord to return home…
struggling but not struggling
My migraine has finally broken – it is like a fever, sometimes it goes on and I can only hope it’ll break soon. I still feel remnants of it, but I am…
what we do to ourselves
I am nursing a tiny cold and a tiny migraine, and I shouldn’t be writing when I’m sick because I end up sounding like a grumpy old person. Then I realised it…